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AUDIO: Australian Renewable Energy Agency speaks out

AUDIO Soon-to-be-axed Australian Renewable Energy Agency speaks out http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2014/s4002932.htm Alexandra Kirk reported this story on Monday, May 12, 2014  MARK COLVIN: It’s emerged that in tomorrow’s budget one of 36 government agencies to be axed, on top of the 40 already slated for closure, is the Australian Renewable Energy Agency – also known as ARENA. 

It was set up two years ago with bipartisan support as an independent agency to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies and their uptake. And it has a budget of $3.2 billion, to be spent over eight years. 

Ivor Frischknecht is the agency’s chief executive. He told Alexandra Kirk that scrapping the agency will reduce Australia’s ability to have lower cost energy in the longer term………

May 13, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Audiovisual